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When I ran for school we had two nights of debates. I was not allowed to sit with the
incumbents. They were seated together
and I was forced to sit between two men running for positions as a judge. The people running for city council sat together. The school board incumbents sat
together. I sat between the two men that
were running for judge.

Former Lee's Summit Elementary Principal Now A Fourth Grade Teacher
It seems that a former Lee's Summit and Ray-Pec principal is now a fourth grade teacher in the Kansas City, MO school system. Here is the trail to her current position. I wonder how she managed to go backwards.

Susan Romeo resigns as principal

Susan Romeo, principal of Raymore Elementary School, will leave theRay-Pec School District at the end of the school year to take a position asprincipal of a new elementary school in Lee’s Summit.

The Ray-Pec Board of Education on Dec. 18 accepted Romeo’sresignation, effective June 16, 2009. On that same date, the Lee’s SummitSchool District Board of Education named Romeo asprincipal of its new elementary school, scheduled to openin fall 2009.

The Lee’s Summit district’s 18th elementary school isunder construction in southeast Lee’s Summit on RansonRoad. The school, along with other facilities andimprovements, is funded by an April 2009 voter-approvedbond issue.

The top official of the Lee’s Summit School District issued a public apology Friday, seeking to make peace with a school board member after a week of feuding. In a blog post, David McGehee, the highest-paid school superintendent in Missouri, asked school board member Bill Baird to “come back to the table for discussions about things that are truly important to the success of our school district.” David McGehee (left) and Bill Baird “I apologize. I forgive,” McGehee wrote. The attempt at reconciliation came after several days of back-and-forth accusations between the two officials, who each called on the other to resign. Baird accused McGehee and board leadership of improperly handling contracts, including one involving a law firm where McGehee is dating a top attorney. McGehee and others denied those claims. At the same time, the school district is negotiating a new contract with McGehe…

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- Students and teachers are off this week for Spring Break, but the Lee's Summit superintendent and one board member are working, calling for one another's resignation. In a public letter sent to the Kansas City Star earlier this week, board member Bill Baird accused Superintendent David McGehee of breaking policies and rules by not having the board vote to approve which law firm the district uses. McGehee said the district uses eight or nine firms, each with fee schedules listed out long ago, long before he started dating Shellie Guin, an attorney who works for one of the firms the district uses. The superintendent said before the pair made it public, he approached each board member, got approval, and put protocols into place that have since been approved by a third-party attorney. Baird claimed he never agreed with the relationship and has been fighting wha…

The public rancor between the superintendent of the Lee’s Summit School District and a school board member sounds too much like the always brewing controversy embroiling the Kansas City School District of yesteryear. Fortunately, the Kansas City school board is professional, non-meddling and much reformed. It even has a tentative contract agreement with a new superintendent as Kansas City Public Schools continues its struggles for full accreditation. Lee’s Summit, on the other hand, is making the big headlines now. It’s as if the childish finger-pointing, blaming and name-calling from the Republican presidential race has spilled some of its toxic politics into the Kansas City suburb. School Superintendent David McGehee and school board member Bill Baird have each asked the other to resign, which is unheard of in school district politics. Baird charges that McGehee, the highes…